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V45.0991.001

Claudie Bernard                                                                                   
FALL 2008
19 University Place, room 634
E-mail : cb1@nyu.edu

SENIOR SEMINAR

LOVE STORIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE

Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 – 4:45

Description

A historical, thematic and structural study of various love stories, happy or tragic, poetic or realistic, in French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

The grade will be based on participation in collective discussions, oral presentations, and two papers, one analytical, the other creative.

Corpus

Tristan et Yseult

Guilleragues, Lettres d’une religieuse portugaise

Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière

Boris Vian, L’Ecume des jours

Anne Gavalda, Entre nous